On Boxing Day, two hundred and seventy-eight years ago, six men were born at precisely the same moment. One was a Scottish Lord, another...

In the past few weeks, as the pandemic has reduced pollution levels significantly, stories of animals appearing in unusual places, as if...

In 1799 in the City of Brotherly Love, our modern brand of racism was forged. It was down to a single man who collected skulls. Every...

In 1755, in what was then York County, Pennsylvania, there was an early morning raid by Shawnee warriors in retaliation for their losses...

There were two Dysons in the news recently. One is making ventilators for profit to add to his £14 billion fortune; the other is a...

Sagan said we’d go nowhere without it, and Einstein imagined it would take us everywhere. Kant believed happiness came directly from it,...

In the last few weeks, Tom Moore was given the honorary title of Colonel and the Freedom of the City of London. He received these...

The first night was very cold. Strangers gathered, staying in their familiar groups, ready for the time when the ritual would start. The...

The night before the lockdown was announced in the UK - March 23, 2020 - the twenty or so pubs in and around my small Lincolnshire town...

In the middle months of 1824, a man called Lozier woke with an idea. Where it came from is uncertain, but it formed in his mind like...